“I’m doing well,” he said Wednesday afternoon from the NovaCare Complex, joking he’d handle media members in a race with ease. “I’m getting stronger every day, I’m running a bit now. Obviously I’m not where I want to be at yet but every single week I make big jumps. … Every single week they give me a task and for the most part I complete them, jumping those hurdles every single time. There’s been no setbacks or anything like that, it’s just rehabbing and getting back from a broken ankle.”

Wallace has never been through a major injury before, so it’s been difficult to watch the season fly by.

“I don’t want to play Madden. I want to play real football,” he said. “I want to get out there with my guys and do some of those celebrations with Golden (Tate) and Carson (Wentz) and Alshon (Jeffery) and those guys. I’m excited about it. It’s going to happen, we just have to keep holding it down and I know they will.”

The Eagles have done their part the past two weeks, recording back-to-back division victories over the Giants and Redskins to get within a game of the NFC East-leading Cowboys, who they face on Sunday.

The 25 and 28 points the Birds scored in those wins are their second- and third-highest scoring games of the season.

The offense has found more balance with a stable ground game led by Josh Adams, but the deep ball – Wallace’s specialty – is still missing.

The Eagles are 20th in the league in 20-plus-yard pass plays and tied for 19th when it comes to completions of 40-or-more yards.

“That’s kind of what he was brought in for,” offensive tackle Lane Johnson said. “I know he wishes he was out there, we wish he was out there. It’s kind of like when DeSean (Jackson) was here. You knew in the back of the mind those safeties and corners were thinking that so, maybe we can get it rolling, it’s happened before, it’s something I would like to see.”

Wallace would too, and that’s what’s made his injury more difficult.

“That’s the frustrating thing,” Wallace said. “I’ve been doing that for nine years before this year, and I’ve been doing that at a high level for a long time getting down the field. I know we have guys that can do it, but for one reason or another we just haven’t had those plays.”

Wallace is “optimistic” he can add that dimension by the time the season’s over.

“I can run and stuff like that, but just not where I want to be at, where anybody wants me to be,” he said. “If you see me run you’ll be like that’s not Mike, obviously, not yet, but I’m getting there. … It’s hard for me to predict that I’ll be back next week or the week after, obviously I’m not playing this week, (heck) I don’t know, I’m just attacking rehab every single day and next week I might feel I might be able to play Sunday. Next week I might feel like that.

“I’ve never been through this, but I go about it the right way I think and coming in and rehabbing and do it and whenever I can play, I’m out there. The first day I can play you better believe I’m out there.”